“I’m too shy to ask people to model for me, so dolls are an easier option,” queer artist Andrew Woodyatt tells Queerty. “I like subverting manufactured squeaky clean dolls, and explore what their real lives might be like at home away from their plastic public personas. I create their environment in miniature, the grubbiness and sadness, the secret desires.”

“I started very early on the use dolls in my work,” he says. “My sister had lots of dolls and this epic dolls house. Growing up on trashy TV and lurid comics, I enacted overblown stories with the dolls, usually ending in some terrible disaster or alien invasion, where they all died or had terrible injuries.”

Scroll down for a sampling of Woodyatt’s work, and see more on his Flickr and Facebook pages…

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Sometime ago I deleted this nonsense site from my pc. But gotta say – you are viral and invasive Ken and GI Joe? Time for the big boy depends – cheap knock-offs – yeah , delete my comment – but for goodness sake – at least attempt to be fair and stop doin’ nonsense! How biased can you be! Shame!

This art is quite wonderful. Thank you, Queerty, for shining a light on this artist and his playful and insightful work. There’s a trend these days to pretend that gay is no longer subversive, but it is, and will be for a very long time. Also, the action in the lace four-poster looks pretty hot.